At Mokrin a rich mother's teenage son was buried with nothing, and a poor mother's son was buried with an axe

Mokrin is an Early Bronze Age cemetery of 312 graves. In 2021 a team led by Aleksandra Žegarac and Joachim Burger published 24 genomes from it in Scientific Reports. Fifteen of the 24 people had relatives in the sample. Every parent-child pair was a mother and son. The team found no fathers and no daughters. All nine people with no relatives in the sample were women or girls, consistent with women marrying in from elsewhere. Grave goods marked rank. A woman in grave 181 and her probable son in grave 163 were both buried with prestige goods. A woman in grave 228 had comparatively rich goods; her son in grave 260, aged 15 to 18, was buried with none. The authors infer he neither inherited her status nor earned his own. A woman in grave 257A had low-status goods; her son in grave 243, aged 20 to 35, was buried with an axe. The authors read this as a son who earned rank in his lifetime. Two related men in graves 220 and 225 were both buried with nothing. The study concludes that women at Mokrin could inherit status but could not pass it to all their sons, who could acquire it themselves.